Voltaire Quotes And Sayings

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“We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton’s intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence.”
– Voltaire

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
– Voltaire

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
– Voltaire

“What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?”
– Voltaire

“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”
– Voltaire

“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on…”
– Voltaire

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each others folly – that is the first law of nature.”
– Voltaire

“What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
– Voltaire

“What’s Optimism? asked Cacambo. I’m afraid to say, said Candide, that its a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly.”
– Voltaire

“Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.”
– Voltaire

“When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”
– Voltaire

“When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?”
– Voltaire

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
– Voltaire

“When man was put into the garden of Eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.”
– Voltaire

“Yet say nothing.”
– Voltaire

“You are very harsh.”
– Voltaire

“You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”
– Voltaire

“You write your name in the snow”
– Voltaire

“You’re a bitter man, said Candide.”
– Voltaire

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